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Write Letters to Politicians and Businesses that Can End the Seal Hunt

Harpseals.org provides contact information and automated emails for Canadian politicians and agencies as well as for businesses that are involved in the seal hunt or that can end the seal hunt.

Supermarkets and restaurants that we list here sell Canadian seafood. Help us urge them to join the boycott of Canadian seafood.

Let the Canadian tourist agencies and businesses know that you will not visit Canada or patronize their business until the seal hunt ends. Therefore we hope that they will pressure their representatives to ban the seal hunt.

We also list the fashion houses that have used seal fur in their designs. Please let them know that you will not buy any of their products if they use seal fur in their collections.

Please Note: Emails and contact information can change. If your email bounces back due to an incorrect email address, please let us know. Please also check the web sites that we list to see if new contact information is provided there.

"Mr. Speaker, I would like to see the six million, or whatever number is out there, killed or sold, or destroyed or burned. I do not care what happens to them. The fact is that the markets are not there to sell more seals. What they (the fishermen) wanted was to have the right to go out and kill the seals. They have that right, and the more they kill the better I will love it." - John Efford, former Minister of Natural Resources and MInister of Fisheries and Oceans

Restaurants, Supermarkets, and Food Manufacturers

Red Lobster

This large chain of restaurants may be the single largest importer of Canadian seafood in the world.

Mailing address:
Darden Group, 5900 Lake Ellenor Drive Orlando, FL 32809

Telephone: 1.800.562.7837

Web contact form: http://www.redlobster.com/contactus.asp

Publix

This chain of over 800 supermarkets in the southeast U.S. sells a lot of Canadian seafood. The company claims that none of their suppliers is involved in the seal hunt. Harpseals.org believes this is hogwash (and not a legitimate way to participate in the boycott of Canadian seafood anyway).

Mailing address:
Publix Super Markets Corporate Office , Attn: Consumer Relations , PO Box 407 , Lakeland, FL 33802-0407

Telephone: 1.800.242.1227

Web contact form: http://www.publix.com/contact/SendUsAMessage.do

Other contact information for individual Publix consumer relations and corporate contacts:

South FL Anne Hendricks Media & Community Relations Manager PO Box 699030 Miami, FL 33269-9030 305-652-2411 ext. 3816 anne.hendricks@publix.com	GA, SC, TN, AL Brenda Reid Media & Community Relations Manager 2600 Delk Road Marietta, GA 30067-6202 770-952-6601 ext. 3649 brenda.reid@publix.com	Orlando, FL; North FL; Southeast GA; Hilton Head, SC; Beaufort, SC Dwaine Stevens Media & Community Relations Manager PO Box 2226-F Jacksonville, FL 32231-0084 904-693-6107 dwaine.stevens@publix.com
Corporate Initiatives and Trade Publications Maria Brous Director of Media & Community Relations PO Box 407 Lakeland, FL 33802-0407 863-688-1188 ext. 55339 maria.brous@publix.com	Central FL Shannon Patten Media and Community Relations Manager P.O. Box 32024 Lakeland, FL 33802 863-688-1188 x63486 shannon.patten@publix.com	President of PUBLIX Ed Crenshaw email (try the following) ed.crenshaw@publix.com or william.crenshaw@publix.com

Kroger

Kroger operates 2,477 grocery retail stores in 31 states under nearly two dozen banners. Kroger holds the #1 or #2 position in 35 of its 44 major markets. Kroger holdings include Ralphs, King Soopers, City Market, Dillons, Smith's, Fry's, QFC, Baker's, Owen's, JayC, Hilander, Gerbes, Scott's, Pay Less, Food4Less, Foods Co, Fred Meyer, Fry's Marketplace, Smith's Marketplace, Kroger Marketplace, TurkeyHill, KwikShop, Loaf 'N Jug, QuickStop, and TomThumb.

Mailing address :
Kroger, 1014 Vine Street , Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-1100

Telephone: 1.866.221.4141

Web contact form: http://www.kroger.com/customercomments.htm

Albertsons

There are over 1200 Albertsons supermarkets in the U.S. In 2006, Supervalu, CVS, and a Cerberus-led investment group bought Albertsons and split the stores up between Supervalue and the Cerberus group. Supervalu got most of the Albertsons stores and is now the third largest food retailer in the U.S. Supervalu also owns Lucky, Save a Lot, Scott's, Shaw's Star, Jewel-Osco, Shop 'n Save, Shoppers, Sunflower Market, and other chains. The Cerberus group also owns Super Saver Foods, among other chains. Their Albertsons division is now called Albertsons LLC. All these supermarkets sell Canadian seafood and have a great deal of purchasing power.

Albertsons Mailing address:
Albertsons, 250 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, ID 83706

Albertsons telephone: 1.877.932.7948

Albertsons web contact form

Supervalu

Supervalue is the third largest food retailer in the U.S. See Albertsons above for more information.

Supervalu mailing address:
SUPERVALU Corporate Headquarters, 11840 Valley View Road, Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344

Supervalu telephone: 952.828.4000

Supervalue web contact form: http://www.supervalu.com/sv-webapp/contact/contact.jsp

Ahold

Large chain of supermarkets and foodservice companies in U.S. and Europe, including Stop and Shop, Giant/Giant Food Stores, and Peapod in the U.S., and Etos, Gall & Gall, Albert, and Pingo Doce in Europe. This chain sells a lot of Canadian seafood and could help end the seal slaughter fast by joining the Canadian seafood boycott.

Mailing addresses:
Royal Ahold , Piet Heinkade 167 - 173, 1019 GM Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Telephone: +31 (0)20 509 51 00 Fax +31 (0)20 509 51 10
Nick Gale, Director, Issues Management: Tel.: +31 0 20 509 52 53
Kerry Underhill, Senior Vice President of Communications Tel.::+31(0)20 509 53 26

Stop and Shop

Telephone: 1.800.767.7772

Web contact form: http://www.stopandshop.com/about/contactus_cr.htm

Giant (Pennsylvania stores)

Mailing address: GIANT, P.O. Box 249, Carlisle, PA 17013

Telephone: 1.888.81.GIANT (1.888.814.4268)

Web contact form: http://www.giantpa.com/shareddev/GIANT_Comments/consumer_commentcard.cfm

Giant Food Stores

Telephone: (Washington Metro area) (301) 341-4322; Baltimore Metro area: (410) 995-4322 ; All other outlying areas in Maryland and Virginia: 1-888-4-MY
In New Jersey or Delaware: 1.888.My Super GIANT

Web contact form : http://www.giantfood.com/consumer/consumer_commentcard.htm

Costco Wholesale

Large chain of wholesale warehouse stores in U.S. and Canada that sells Canadian seafood and, in Newfoundland stores, also sells capsules of baby harp seal body fat as a "health food supplement."

Mailing address:
Costco Wholesale, PO Box 34331, Seattle, WA 98124
or 999 Lake Drive , Issaquah, WA 98027

Telephone: 1.800.774.2678

Web contact form : https://www.costco.com/CustomerService/EmailUs.aspx?secure=1

Delhaize America

Delhaize America operates over 1,500 stores in 16 states in the eastern United States. These include Food Lion, Bloom, Bottom Dollar, Harveys, Hannaford Bros., Kash n' Karry and Sweetbay.

Mailing addresses, telephone numbers and faxes:

Delhaize Group Support Office, Square Marie Curie 40, 1070 Brussels - Belgium, Telephone: 32 2 412 22 11, Fax: 32 2 412 22 22

Food Lion, P.O. Box 1330, 2110 Executive Dr., Salisbury, NC 28145-1330, Telephone: 704.633.8250, Fax: 704.636.5024

Hannaford, 145 Pleasant Hill Rd., Scarborough, ME 04074, Telephone: 207.883.2911, Fax: 207.883.7555

Kash N' Karry, Sweetbay Supermarket, 3801 Sugar Palm Dr., Tampa, FL 33619, Telephone: 813.620.1139, Fax: 813.626.5861

Harvey's Supermarkets, P.O. Box 646, Nashville, GA 31639, Telephone: 229.686.7654, Fax: 229.686.2927

Web contact form: http://www.delhaizegroup.com/bottomsectionpages/ContactUs/tabid/82/language/en-US/default.aspx

Gorton's of Gloucester

Gorton's of Gloucester is a subsidiary of the Japanese seafood conglomerate Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd., producing fishsticks and other frozen seafood for the retail market in the United States and selling fish products to fast-food restaurants such as McDonald's. Estimated annual sales are $108 million. Gorton's sells some fish from Canada, including pollock and salmon.

Mailing address: Gorton's of Gloucester, 128 Rogers St., Gloucester, MA 01930

Telephone: 800.222.6826 Fax: 978.281.8295

Web contact form: http://www.gortons.com/contact.php

Tourism Agencies and Businesses

In addition to boycotting seafood, we urge you to avoid travel and tourism in Canada - and tell the government and tourist-related agencies and businesses about it.

Canadian Tourism Commission

The Canadian Tourism Commission's (CTC's) business is to promote tourism to Canada. It is government-sponsored and corporate-fed. Most noteable is its motto- "Discover our True Nature".... So, Harpseals.org suggests you do just that! Tell them you're not going to travel to or buy Canadian products as long as the senseless slaughter of seals continues.

Mailing address: Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC), Suite 1400, Four Bentall Centre, 1055 Dunsmuir St./Box 49230, Vancouver, BC V7X 1L2, Canada

Telephone: 604.638.8300

U.S. Leisure Marketing Department of the Canadian Tourism Commission

The U.S. Leisure Marketing Department states, "the CTC's marketing staff works with partners to position Canada as the premier destination of choice for U.S. travellers. Our aim is to encourage repeat visitation and to jumpstart word-of-mouth publicity." The U.S. is the second-largest source for travel expenditures in Canada and Canada’s largest single source for international visitors and expenditures.

"By capturing free editorial in U.S. print and electronic media, our team aims to present Canada as a fresh and sparkling destination–a Canada full of compelling experiences. Our aim is to create a buzz and make Canada a “bragging rights” destination with our target audience. Our Canadian partners are crucial to our success in the U.S. market. "

If you see one of the CTC's "free editorial" content in your local paper, please be sure to write a letter to the editor of the paper exposing Canada's "True Nature" - the bloody, cruel seal hunt they want to hide...

Additional Tourist Contacts

For a 'reality tour' of Newfoundland and a long list of tourism-related contacts in Newfoundland and Labrador as well as the Magdalen Islands, Nova Scotia, and Norway, visit the anti-sealing website Touring Newfoundland and click on Things To Do. You will find automated emails here that are sent to lodging and tour companies in the sealing cities and provinces.

Politicians

Besides the fishing industry, is there any one force in Canada that we have to challenge more in order to stop the seal killing than the twisted political system? Canada's annual seal massacre is very political in nature and it's the men and women in office that make the laws and policies that we need to change. Newfoundland has a relatively large number of parliamentary members, and history shows that to be elected to office there, a politician must be in favor of the seal hunt.

Stockwell Day

Minister of International Trade for Canada. He is likely to be the politician who is most concerned about the impact of the Canadian seafood boycott on Canada's exports.

Mailing Address:
Hon. Stockwell Day, House of Commons, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A6, CANADA

Telephone: 613.995.1702 Fax: 613.995.1154

See below for automated email.

Gail Shea

Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, as of fall 2008. She hails from Prince Edward Island. She replaces Loyola Hearn, who was responsible for increasing the seal killing quotas, even in the face of high mortality due to the lack of sea ice.

Loyola Hearn served on the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, which issued a report in November 2005, entitled "Northern Cod: A Failure of Canadian Fisheries Management". In this report, the committee admitted that, "The difficulty with proving this proposition [that the consumption of cod by seals is high enough to impair recovery] is that seals' diet consists of many types of fish, including juvenile cod, other fish species that prey on juvenile cod as well as species that constitutes the cod diet, for example capelin." Nevertheless, the committee made the following recommendations: (1) That the Government of Canada aggressively promote the expansion of markets for harp seal products; and,
(2) That DFO increase the commercial quotas for the seal harvest in accordance with market conditions.

Mailing address: House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A6

Telephone: 613.992.9223, Fax: 613.992.1974

See below for automated email.

Stephen Harper

Prime Minister of Canada. Co-founder of Canada's Conservative Party. He has been unsympathetic to the plight of the seals and unapologetic about the seal hunt and the stain on Canada's reputation that it has caused.

Mailing address: Office of the Prime Minister , 80 Wellington Street , Ottawa , K1A 0A2, CANADA

Fax: 613.941.6900

Fashion Houses

Several fashion houses have used seal pelts in their clothing lines. As this changes from season to season and year to year, they are considered boycott targets until they renounce the use of seal fur (and preferrably all animal skins).

We list contact information for the fashion houses that have used seal fur here.

Newspapers

Writing letters to the editors of local, university, and major national newspapers and magazines is an excellent way to spread the word about the seal hunt and the actions people can take to end it. These letters can reach tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people and provide as much or more information as a TV commercial or print ad. All for free.

Please take any opportunities you find to write these letters. You can write in response to articles on global warming, seals who stray to far away waters, Canadian tourism articles, articles on Canadian seafood or stores and restaurants that sell it, articles on marine mammals, articles on the oceans and over-fishing, etc.

Below is contact information for several Canadian newspapers. Those in Newfoundland will likely read by sealers. For a list of U.S. newspapers, one web site with an apparently thorough list is here.

The Globe and Mail

Canada national daily. Send letters to the editor here.

The Telegram

Newfoundland daily. Send letters to the editor here.

The Western Star

Western Newfoundland daily. Send letters to the editor here.

Montreal Gazette

Quebec daily. Send letters to the editor here.

Sample Letters

We provide sample letters for activists who would like to pen their own letters but need a jump start or ideas. Click here to see a few sample letters.